While it is "unmistakable" that Iran was responsible for the attacks on two tankers last week, the United States does not want to go to war with Tehran, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday. In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Pompeo said, "President Trump has done everything...

The head of Libya's U.N.-supported government Sunday proposed holding nationwide elections to end the war in the North African country, as the forces of the rival military commander Khalifa Haftar continue their two-month-long battle to take the capital, Tripoli. Prime Minister Fayez...

Iran will announce further moves on Monday to scale back compliance with an international nuclear pact that the United States abandoned last year, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday. “Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation tomorrow at the Arak heavy water site will announce...

Algerian former prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia appeared in a court in Algiers on Sunday to be questioned over alleged corruption involving the partner in Algeria of Germany’s Volkswagen, state TV said. This is the second time Ouyahia has been questioned since the Supreme Court last week...

Fires engulfing vital wheat fields across Syria's northeast have killed at least 10 people, a war monitor said Sunday, as Kurdish authorities claim the blazes were set deliberately. Kurdish authorities and the Damascus regime are competing to buy up this year's harvest as fires -- some...

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba suggested on Sunday that he could be open to a move away from the Premier League side, telling reporters in Tokyo that now "could be a good time to have a new challenge somewhere else." The Frenchman has been linked in the British media with a move to...

Algeria’s former finance minister Karim Djoudi appeared before the Supreme Court Sunday to face questions about corruption accusations, state television reported. He has not been charged but joins a series of senior figures to face investigations since protests broke out this year demanding...

Any suggestion of suspending Parliament to try to force through a so-called no-deal Brexit would be "scandalous" and probably will never happen, Hilary Benn, an opposition Labour lawmaker and chair of the Brexit parliamentary committee, said Sunday. One Conservative hopeful to replace Prime...

A Japanese tanker, attacked in the Gulf in an incident that sparked a new standoff between Washington and Tehran, "arrived safely" Sunday at an anchorage off the UAE, its management said. The Kokuka Courageous was carrying highly flammable methanol through the Gulf of Oman on Thursday when...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday called for an investigation into claims his representatives misappropriated funds intended to help defectors from the Venezuelan military living in Colombia. More than 1,400 members of Venezuela’s armed forces have fled to Colombia this...

A Turkish observation post in Syria’s Idlib region was attacked with mortar fire and shelling from an area controlled by Syrian government forces, causing damage but no casualties, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said its forces immediately retaliated with heavy...

Tens of thousands are expected to rally on Sunday to demand the resignation of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, despite her decision to suspend work on a divisive extradition bill that prompted the largest protests in decades. Huge numbers are expected to take to the streets in Hong...

Britain's ambassador to Iran on Sunday denied he was summoned by the Iranian foreign ministry after London accused Tehran of "almost certainly" being responsible for tanker attacks in the Gulf. "Interesting. And news to me," ambassador Rob Macaire said in a tweet a day after the Iranian...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has warned against "exploiting" the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi for political gains, in what appeared to be a veiled attack on Turkey. Turkey's ties with Saudi Arabia have come under strain since the brutal murder last October of Khashoggi in...

Iran's deputy foreign minister met a top EU diplomat Saturday to discuss the future of the troubled nuclear deal, state media said, amid rising tensions between Tehran and Washington. The meeting in Tehran between Abbas Araghchi and Helga Schmid, deputy to EU foreign policy chief Federica...

An ammunition depot in Damascus exploded Saturday, state media reported, prompting a blast heard by an AFP journalist in the Syrian capital. "An ammunition depot for the Syrian regime army in western Damascus exploded after a fire in nearby fields started spreading," state news agency SANA...

 At least 35 combatants including 26 pro-regime forces were killed Saturday in clashes and airstrikes that erupted at dawn in northwestern Syria, a monitoring group said. The flare-up came as Russian-backed regime forces tried to retake two villages seized by militants and allied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has obtained fresh satellite images uncover the regime’s establishment of a new  helipad near Shamsein camp in central Homs province. The images show the ongoing construction of a helipad, 550 meters in length and about 150 in width. It is similar...

Sudan's chief prosecutor said on Saturday that ousted President Omar al-Bashir would be sent for trial soon on corruption charges related to his three decades in power. Alwaleed Sayed Ahmed Mahmoud told a news conference the trial referral would be made after a one-week period for...

Slovak environmental lawyer Zuzana Caputova was on Saturday sworn in as the EU member's first female president, surprising observers with a speech that lacked the government criticism she was known for on the campaign trail. The community activist, who ran on the slogan "Stand up to evil,"...